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Re: Lightweight Laptops???

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Somewhere on teh intarwebs the wharf rat wrote:
> In article <kg99ep$osf$1@dont-email.me>,
> ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am still to find a compelling reason to upgrade my 'ultraportable'
>> machine from the 2005 IBM X32 I currently use.
>>
>> It has a 1.8GHz Pentium M [Dothan - 2MB L2], is maxed at 2GB RAM,
>> has a 160GB IDE HDD, 11" screen (1024x768) and is light and lasts
>> for hours on a battery. (I have a half-dozen spare bats of varying
>> capacities.)
>>
>
> Lol, practically the same machine I use.  Does everything I need and
> it has a serial port. (Well, on the "media slice"...)

Yep. They're great machines huh? I paid something like $100 for my pristine 
one and got the planar for the other in a box of TP bits that I paid $20 
for. As I have seven or eight X31s in various states[*] it was a matter of 
less than an hour to swap the X32 planar into a previously-faulty X31 
case... It's an X32 in all but name.

[*] I bought a bunch of faulty X31s whenever they came up on a local on-line 
auction site for a while. The problem is almost always fixed by replacing a 
couple of SMD tantalum capacitors - which I also stocked up on. Now I just 
need the time to get around to fixing the ones that still need it. ;)

> I tried X40's
> and 51's but ended up back with this one...  An X40 with an ssd is
> another good choice; the trick is to get a regular format 1.8" and
> use a converter instead of paying for that wierd sideways drive.

Heh, yep, that'll work. Of course, if you're brave you can remove (or 
bypass) the SATA to PATA bridge-chip that IBM fitted to the X40/1 machines 
(and also the T43s and R52s) and run a latest generation 1.8" SATA SSD in 
the X40. :)

I have a couple of T43ps and an R52 sitting waiting for me to get the time 
to do the mod.

Cheers,
-- 
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a 
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) 

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Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 04:08 -0800
  Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-02-20 18:29 -0500
    Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 18:40 -0800
    Re: Lightweight Laptops??? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-02-21 07:05 -0500
      Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-21 04:49 -0800
        Re: Lightweight Laptops??? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-02-21 10:41 -0500
          Re: Lightweight Laptops??? cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2013-02-21 19:53 -0800
            Re: Lightweight Laptops??? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-02-22 05:08 -0500
              Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 03:07 -0800
              Re: Lightweight Laptops??? cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> - 2013-02-22 12:13 -0800
  Re: Lightweight Laptops??? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-02-23 15:28 +1300
    Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-02-23 05:08 -0800
      Re: Lightweight Laptops??? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2013-02-24 02:00 -0500
      Re: Lightweight Laptops??? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 01:22 +1300
        Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you> - 2013-02-26 08:20 +0000
          Re: Lightweight Laptops??? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-02-26 22:10 +0000
            Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-02-27 07:07 +0000
              Re: Lightweight Laptops??? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-03-11 15:31 +0000
                Re: Lightweight Laptops??? Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-03-12 09:29 +0000
    Re: Lightweight Laptops??? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-02-26 21:56 +0000
      Re: Lightweight Laptops??? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-02-27 23:01 +1300
        Re: Lightweight Laptops??? wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-03-11 15:33 +0000
          Re: Lightweight Laptops??? "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-03-13 14:20 +1300

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